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...adding a sweetness to the tender chunks of venison. I fry up some trout rolled in cornmeal and flour in a mess of pig fat: awesome--crisp on the outside and soft and buttery inside. We put some grouse coated in cornmeal in a pan of pork fat: a winner. We find some morels on the property, which we combine with onions and cook in a wash of pork fat: very nice...
DIED. JAY BERWANGER, 88, first winner of the Heisman Trophy in 1935 and first player ever drafted by the NFL; in Oak Brook, Ill. In the days before platoon football, Berwanger had to pass, block, tackle, punt, kick off, boot extra points and return punts. Unimpressed by football fame, he stored the trophy at the home of his aunt, who used it as a doorstop...
...series over a three-week period. Viewers voting by phone (3 million last week) will winnow them to nine, plus a "wild card" picked by the judges. The final 10 will perform (and get re-critiqued) each week, with one ejected every Wednesday until Sept. 4, when the winner will score a recording contract with...
...back to goal, Rivaldo received the ball on his chest, let it drop, trapped it with his right foot, swiveled like Baryshnikov and smacked it with his left, past a diving goalkeeper. It was a feat of pure Brazilian magic. Honorable Mention: Senegalese Papa Bouba Diop's scrambling game-winner against France in the opening match...
...Consider the 1947 Miss Italy contest. Among the also-rans: Silvana Mangano, a sensation with her hiked-up skirt and dirty dancing in "Bitter Rice," and Eleonora Rossi Drago, the keen-featured seductress of Antonioni's 1955 "Le Amiche." The pageant winner was the luminous 16-year-old Lucia Bos?, who would star in Antonioni's first two features, "Cronaca di un amore" and "The Lady Without Camelias." Second place went to Gianna Maria Canale, who was "Theodora Slave Empress" before co-starring in "Hercules." And in third place: Gina Lollobrigida, one of an imposing group of Italian actresses...